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I am proud to be part of Microsoft Ignite this year again. This is an event which I am part of since 2007 ( as speaker & Technical expert) . This year (2016) I will be delivering 2 Breakout session as Futured speaker , and as for the several past few years a good Friend MVP Raymond Comvalious will join me as co speaker, and the sessions are as below:

Explore advanced Windows Defense

Interested in security? Want to protect your data in the real world? See how Microsoft Windows addresses security as a whole system, one layer at a time. Explore methods of developing a secure baseline and how to harden your Windows Enterprise architectures and applications from pass-the-hash and other advanced attacks.

Halt hackers: do those tricks still work with Windows 10?

Over the past years, attacks have become more sophisticated and what once was the most safe operating system on the planet, can now easily be hacked. What are the most compelling dangers for Microsoft Windows 7 and 8.1, and how is Windows 10 capable of fixing them? This session shows what Windows 10 will help to protect out of the box and what you can do about the remaining threats.

Details about MSIgnite 16

Who will be there? Well, aside from yourself... Microsoft Ignite will host thousands of IT Decision Makers, IT Professionals, and Enterprise Developers from around the world. Microsoft technical and business leaders will be there, too—including Keynote Speaker Satya Nadella, and Brad Anderson, Joe Belfiore, Dave Campbell, Peggy Johnson, Chris Jones, Julie Larson Green, Gurdeep Singh Pall, and many others. With access to the best and brightest minds in the industry, you'll get practical guidance, inspiration, and insights to help launch your next successful project.

Ask a random person on the street what cybersecurity means to him or her, and you might get a response that refers to the most recent big data breach. It’s hard to ignore being constantly told by major news outlets that the “private” in “private information” is a bad joke, and that not a single person who has ever entered so much as their favorite color into an online form is safe from black market traders, unscrupulous governments, internet hacktivists, and whatever other threats you can possibly imagine. Push the question a little further, and your random person on the street might tell you all the things they do to stay safe online — and all the things they don’t do. At the very least, you would probably conclude that awareness of cybersecurity issues has dramatically increased in the public sphere. Awareness is, to be sure, a crucial step in bolstering security, whether in a corporate context or a more personal one. But awareness is not enough.

As members of a digital, networked society, we shouldn’t simply be aware of our problems. Rather, we should be fixing them. We often fail to do that, though, choosing instead to just accept bad outcomes rather than address their root causes.

This is completely understandable when you think about the fact that security problems often seem insurmountable. What can we as individuals do, even if it’s just to protect our own personal information? There are too many points of failure, too many factors that are out of one person’s hands.

So rather than struggle independently with rudimentary tools and limited help from others, the most logical choice is to shift our focus and embrace a new standard: a culture of cybersecurity. To put it another way, we need a collective effort to share valuable security knowledge, strategies, best practices, and more with our fellow digital citizens. If we want effective cybersecurity, then all of us have to play a part.

We all know that getting certified can give your career (and resume) a boost. And I am a very good example of that. Getting Microsoft Certified definitely helped me to be where I am today, and I am still a big fan of the exams, and even though I am now a Microsoft Full Time employee, I am still taking the exams, which i believe is going to help me to my next step in my career. Very recently I passed the 3 Azure certification which helped me to become “ Microsoft Azure Certified Solution Developer”, if you are a recent follower of my blog you will also know, I have more than 90 Microsoft Certification…..

If you’ve been interested in getting certified - or want to continue to the next level of certification - but were unsure or waiting until you had some wiggle room with studying and practicing for the exam, that time is now. Microsoft has recently introduced a brand new offer: Microsoft Certification Booster Packs!

The new Booster Pack gives you more options and better odds at your Microsoft Certification exam: from practice tests to retake opportunities, you choose what you need to help you succeed.

The Booster Packs are available for purchase from March 7 to August 31, 2016.

I just found a great article written by Lewis Morgan on IT Governance UK web site, which lists all the incidents happen in March 2016. You will see ransomware attacks. Data breaches , DDOS and other attack types , which hit the news. Please keep in mind all these are public information and has nothing to do with me or with my day job. Just want to keep people informed, also share great resources here in my blog. I did not verify each and every source so the information shared is as is Now enjoy and BE SAFE